


Now that you’ve downloaded the file, mount the disk image and navigation to /Appications/Utilities. Launching the mpkg will return a failure everytime. Unlike most Mac bundled apps, which install with a simple drag and drop, the installer must be launched. It is packaged as a Disk Image (dmg) file, like most Mac applications, and contains a mpkg file, which is an installation package. Note that it is NOT a Universal application. Here’s the essence of this “non-hack.” First, you’ll need to proceed to and download their latest release. Apple has generously built into the Finder the ability to use Rosetta at will. Although Rosetta is transparent, it’s not invisible, and that’s the trick. If you launch a non-native application, in theory, Rosetta kicks into action and dynamically translates to application to work in near-realtime. All Intel Mac systems include a program called Rosetta whose sole purpose is to emulate the PowerPC for non-intel native/universal applications. The Flip4Mac player that Microsoft endorsed after they officially killed Mac Windows Media Player doesn’t install or run on Intel Macs, but it can be easily circumvented with a little tinkering. I recently set up my new Macbook, and I was upset to see that my Windows Media video files no longer worked.
